The RiverDogs also felt compelled to remind Tebow of the time he cried after his Florida Gators lost to Alabama in the NCAA football SEC championship game. The team put an image of a tearful Tebow on the scoreboard when players other than Tebow werebatting.

In a sports world filled with some benign and petty trash talk, this might have been the pettiest of them all.

In a vacuum, trash talk is fine. Larry Bird and Michael Jordan were two of the greatest trash-talkers in the world. Jordan used to dig around into opposing players’ personal lives to make the trash sting hard. Bird once brazenly told the media he would play the first three quarters of a game left-handed, before proceeding to hit the game-tying shot to send the game to OT and the game-winning shot, while notching 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. He did, in fact, play the first three quarters left-handed (he’s normally right-handed.)

That type of trash-talking was well-thought-out and well-implemented. The RiverDogs’ actions, by contrast, were intellectually lazy and, as many fans said, classless.

Using the team’s mascot and official Twitter account to mock an opponent’s faith would seem to cross the line.